Sabrina

> “and look! mailing address. > what? are we gonna mail him something? > no man? that’s where he lives.” dialogue — like this — gives me life. This film is a really interesting one. Some parts of this feels like Joel Haver at his more amateur, while others feel like genuinely the most practically impressive sequences I’ve seen — from him; That intro is so fucking good. It feels very early-Richard-Linklater. The style is all there, to like an auteur-level extent, you just gotta jive with the pacing. This is a slow, meditative, film — that becomes almost sluggish, at one point, but in a way that works with its main character. This inspires me to go around some small-towns local, to me, and see who I can get to star in my work. Maybe this is just because I grew up around the English country/coast and people around here rarely want any part, in anything, but I’ve never seen a community come together — in this way — before. What a magical film. The soundtrack, and how it’s implemented, is real lovely — too. Edit: Actually highly recommend Haver’s last short [“How to Navigate an Argument With a Friend”](https://youtu.be/KxoppLofeZw?is=dekE9rgbeu3YIxac) with Dax Flame and Christina Kartchner; I checked it out — just now — and I’d say it’s a great example of what I really like about Joel’s style of directing, that is evident in this, just in shorter form.